RICHMOND CITY COUNCIL
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COUNCIL PUBLIC INFORMATION NEWS ADVISORY
IMMEDIATE RELEASE TO BE FORWARDED AND SHARED
Thursday, 29 March 2012
Councilman Conner invites Richmond students (ages 12-17) and their parents to the Richmond City Council Career and Technical Education Commission Career Night Reception at the Richmond Technical Center
Richmond City Council Career and Technical Education Commission
WHAT The Honorable Doug G. Conner, Councilman, Richmond City Council Southside 9th District, invites Richmond Public Schools students (ages 12-18) and their parents to attend the Richmond City Council Career and Technical Education Commission Career Night Reception at the Richmond Technical Center. This event is free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the Richmond City Council Career and Technical Education Commission, the purpose of the event is to expose students and parents to the wide-range of meaningful careers available and to showcase the Richmond City Council Career and Technical Education Commission and the Richmond Public Schools Richmond Technical Center.
The program for the event will include:
• The Honorable Mayor Dwight C. Jones, Mayor of Richmond
• The Honorable Doug G. Conner, Councilman,
Richmond City Council Southside 9th District
• Yvonne Brandon, Superintendent, Richmond Public Schools
• Free food and refreshments
• Information on apprenticeship programs
• Student project displays
• Free program materials
WHEN Tuesday, April 3, 2012
6:30-8:00 p.m.
WHERE Richmond Public Schools
Richmond Technical Center
2020 Westwood Avenue
Richmond, Virginia 23230
CONTACT For more information, please contact Eli Wong, Legislative Liaison for Councilman Doug G. Conner, Richmond City Council, South Central 9th District, at 804.363/3443, or eli.wong@richmondgov.com; or Roy Reynolds, at 69kodiak@gmail.com.
Background on the Richmond City Council Career and Technical Education Commission
Established by Richmond City Council on December 14, 2009 by Council Resolution number 2009-R166-194, the Richmond City Council Career and Technical Education Commission was born out of a Career and Technical Education Task Force organized in 2007 by Councilman Doug Conner. On November 28, 2007, Richmond City Council held a Richmond Regional Forum on Career and Technical Education that included presentations and discussions on model schools from around the country. Since that time the members of the Task Force and Commission have been holding regular organizational and planning meetings.
The goal of the Commission is to explore the development of career and technical education options for K-12th grade students, young adults, displaced workers and those reentering the workforce and to identify and review various existing career and technical education providers to determine which are employing “best practices” educational and training techniques and which might be the best model for Richmond. The Commission is to provide Richmond Public Schools with its final recommendations concerning the provision of career and technical education within 12 months of the final member being appointed to the Commission. Members of the Commission are still being appointed.
The Richmond City Council Career and Technical Education Commission includes the following 21 members:
• A Member of the Richmond City Council Health, Human Services and Education Standing Committee, who shall serve as Chairman;
• A member of the Richmond Public Schools Board of Trustees;
• A representative from the Richmond Public Schools Administration;
• A representative from the Richmond Public Schools Richmond Technical Center Advisory Board
• A representative from the Richmond Department of Economic Development
• A representative from the Greater Richmond Partnership;
• A representative from the Richmond Capital Regional Workforce Investment Board;
• A representative from the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), a federation of international labor unions.
• A representative from the Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce;
• Ten at-large members who shall either be Richmond residents or operated businesses in the city; and
• Two members appointed by the Mayor by letter to the Richmond City Council Office of the City Clerk.
Richmond City Council has previously appropriated $75,000 to assist a study on the ways to enhance vocational and technical education options within the city of Richmond.
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Steven R. Skinner, APR
Council Public Information Manager
RICHMOND CITY COUNCIL
OFFICE OF THE COUNCIL CHIEF OF STAFF
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Richmond, Virginia 23219
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